Josephine Murray’s published translations include a series of three children’s illustrated non-fiction books by Manon Bucciarelli for Harper Collins; Nature, Cities, and Myths and, with Miranda Richmond Mouillot, Suffusion, Anne-Sophie Pic’s food memoir/manifesto with recipes for Hachette Pratique. 

A Cordon Bleu qualified cook with professional cookery experience, she has proof-read/edited the English translations of two cookery books for Hachette Pratique, and her food writing has been published in Waitrose & Partners Food magazine and Berkshire Life magazine.

As a journalist, she regularly writes about crafts and inspiring people for magazines LandScape, Embroidery and Pressing Matters. Her features about a wide range of subjects from food to careers, homes and gardens have been published in magazines including The Simple Things, Period House, Real, Health Plus, Women’s World (the Women’s Institute magazine), Wiltshire Life, and The Guardian newspaper.

In 2024, she collaborated with photographer Carmel King to create Made in Gloucester, a book documenting ten different makers and manufacturers in Gloucester. 

Josephine has given many talks and webinars about food translation and literary translation to organisations including CIOL, GCHQ, Durham University and several schools. 

She also gives talks about prolific children’s literature translator and translators’ rights activist Patricia Crampton, following a Visiting Fellowship in the Archives and Collections at UEA to study her archive.

Josephine is currently translating a book of fiction aimed at adults for Harper Collins. 

Josephine is a member of the TA committee.